E3 2003: Sony Online All Access Subscription Plan Announced

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You'll soon be able to get every game in the Sony Online line-up for one tidy monthly fee.

By Newsey McNewserson

One of the things that we've always wondered about is just how many MMOs the market can bear. With so many already out and on the horizons, you had to figure that the ceiling would be reached for how much consumers of the persistent online games were willing to spend on their habit. We also wondered if companies such as Sony Online that had more than one product under their wings with a subscription plan would decide to develop one pricing plan. We wonder no more because Sony Online has done just that.

Six titles in all will be given to those bold enough to spend their entire "lives" on the Internet. EverQuest II, EverQuest, and PlanetSide are the big ones with the other littler Station titles like Infantry filling out the rest of the role. All of these titles will be together under the same pricing plan of $21.99 a month. If you actually plan on playing all of these games that's a pretty good deal. Heck, even if you plan on playing two of the big titles, that's still cheaper than each of them individually. The only unfortunate thing is that you still have to pay for the boxed copy of each of these games at the store. But I guess none of us really expected otherwise.